Category: Newsletter

I hope you all had a fantastic summer and holiday. For the first time in many years, I could spend the summer combining work with a couple of weeks vacation, in a summery Sweden with morning jogs, swims, sauna and nice dinners with friends and family. The batteries are now […]

Hi, André, and welcome to SACC Texas, Dallas and the role as Board Member in the Dallas Chapter and Chief Communication Officer for SACC Texas. Could you please tell us a bit about yourself? Thank you. I am born and raised in Stockholm, Sweden, where I have been working with […]

SACC-Houston is happy to announce that we on our last board meeting welcomed a new board member: Marcus Hagegård. Tell us a bit about yourself Marcus! I am 46 years old. Born and raised in Sweden. I have spent most of my adult life in the United States. In […]

Christina Thoerngren is the new Vice Chair Woman and Secretary for SACC Texas, Dallas Christina has a background as a Lawyer in Stockholm, Sweden, and she moved here to Dallas earlier this year with her two children and husband, who work at Ericsson. Welcome to Dallas, Christina Thoerngren! Could […]

Dear SACC -Dallas and Texas friends, Now, in the midst of July, it is time to summarize the activities of the first six months for us at SACC Texas. I can only say that it has been a very active and eventful start for 2019, full of interesting and fun […]

Can you tell us a bit about yourself, what do you do? My name is Patrick Juthberg and I am from Sweden. I have a fantastic family with five great grown up children and three grandchildren. My family is still in Sweden, but my fantastic lady is moving here to […]

Hi there! My name is Elin Sjödahl and I am the new intern at Swedish-American Chambers of Commerce (SACC) Texas. I am very excited to join the SACC-Team! I will mainly be helping out in Houston as this is where I will be based, but I will also be there to […]

High Quality API Event Series Visits Austin To Emphasize Global API Design Practices On June 11 – 13, Nordic APIs will host their second API event in the USA, modeled after their successful event series in Europe. During this two and a half-day conference in Austin, Texas, they will bring together API practitioners and […]

Welcome to Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce in Austin! We’re excited to have you onboard! Tell us a little bit about yourself. Thank you. I am very excited to become a part of SACC-Texas in Austin! My name is Felicia Anton, and I’m a B.A graduate from Uppsala University in Sweden. […]

The Embassy of Sweden and SACC-USA have once again mapped Swedish-affiliated companies and their economic impact in the United States. This is an updated third edition of this popular publication, and it shows that economic interactions with Swedish businesses and industry create more than 360,000 jobs in the United States. […]

Can you tell us a bit about yourself? My name is Gustaf Rabe, and I am responsible for the business development team for USA and Canada. I am from Gothenburg, Sweden, and I have worked at Tetra Pak for 17 years — 14 of those have been based in Denton, Texas […]

Would you like to coach someone you can share your knowledge with while receiving new ways of thinking? Are you looking to be coached by someone to exchange your ideas? Do you value networking? Are you interested in participating in a program that can benefit your personal growth and development, provide career guidance […]

Conveniently located just steps from the festival, House of Scandinavia by AmEx and SAS is your home away from home at SXSW, and the perfect spot for networking and daily recaps on everything innovative. Enjoy premium food and drinks as well as curated entertainment and showcases with leading Scandinavian artists […]

Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce (SACC)-Texas is looking for a Communications & Website Management Board Member to join one of our SACC Texas local chapters´, Austin, Dallas or Houston, as soon as possible. YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE OF •Mainly webpage (WordPress) editing, maintaining and updating. •Help keeping SACC-Texas´s social media channels […]

Johan Marcus, the SACC-USA President and Executive Director visited Texas during a four day long road-trip in December. Our very own SACC-Texas President, Hans Cederlund located in Houston joined Johan on his tour. The aim was for us in SACC-Texas to show and promote what a great business climate Texas […]

Meter Television are now conduction a nationwide casting for season 8 of the Emmy award winning TV show “Allt For Sverige”. Season 5, 6 and 7 was beyond successful, and they broke records in viewings. They are searching for Americans who badly want to find out more about their Swedish heritage […]

Are you, or do you know, an American tech or IT student interested in an internship in Sweden? The Swedish-American Chambers of Commerce of the USA is reaching out to tech students or graduates to join Swedish companies for traineeships up to 18 months. Sweden is home to many high tech and […]

My name is Andreas Drakenberg and I currently hold the position of trainee at the Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce in Austin. In my opinion, without sounding too biased, the position in the capital of Texas is superior by far to other internships available through the whole SACC-USA organization. When I […]

Patrik Melander, we are very happy to welcome you to the Board of Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce (SACC) in Dallas! You will be heading the Dallas chapter of SACC-Texas, can you tell us about your background? Thank you Johanna! Well, over the past 24 years, I have been fortunate to live […]

We’re happy to announce a successful SACC Texas Golf tournament which was held on November 4th at the Tour 18 Golf Court located in Houston. The event was ample fun for all teams who joined in! In all, we had 3 teams from Dallas, 2 teams from Austin and 1 […]

On October 25-26 2017, SACC-USA and SACC New England hosted the annual networking event SACC Summit in Boston. Members, business partners and chamber representatives were invited, whereof SACC Texas had six chamber representatives present. The theme this year was Business Through Innovation, a well-fitting theme considering that Boston is known […]

Back in September SAS announced that they will charter two direct flights from Stockholm to Austin during next year’s SXSW festival in March. This will be the first time that Arlanda gets a direct line to the capital of Texas. Austin is not one of SAS usual destinations in the US. […]

Ericsson opens a design center in Austin. The focus will be on microelectronics and accelerating the commercialization of 5G. According to the press release, the design center is already open and recruitment of staff is under way. The aim is to have 80 employees by mid-2018. “Together with our ASIC […]

Apply for Internships at SACC Texas The Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce (SACC) in Texas is looking for 2 proactive, ambitious and result-oriented interns/trainees to join our team, starting as soon as possible. Focus will be to find someone for Membership & Business Strategy as well as Marketing & Events. SACC-Texas was […]

Mobile Passport Station The Swedish Embassy in Washington, DC offers a special consular service by using a mobile photo station that enables Swedish citizens to apply for regular passports at a number of Swedish Consulates in the U.S. The mobile passport station will be in Houston on March 20 – […]

Houston, Texas: Carl, we are very glad to have Aeon LLC as a Business Member of SACC-Texas. In short, can you please tell us about yourself? I am originally from Baton Rouge Louisiana, but have been a resident of Sugar Land, Texas since 2008. I have been married for 16 years and have […]

Austin, Texas: Exciting news! Airline Norwegian will launch a new route from Gatwick, London to Austin-Bergstom, Austin. The route will open in March next year and Norwegian will use the new Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft to traffic the line. Tickets are available from $249.90 one way. Certainly, this will make going […]

Dallas, Texas: Andreas, we are glad to have Ecolean as a Business Member of SACC-Texas. In short, can you please tell us about what Ecolean does? Ecolean is a supplier of innovative and lighter packaging solutions. By using a minimal amount of raw material we produce a truly lightweight package and […]